

Or this work depicting Immanuel Kant, worthy of a Stoic wise man:

His statues of St. Augustine, Adam Smith, and John Witherspoon are more along usual lines:



Clearly Aristotle or Plato would be worthy of this sort of treatment. But what about a recent philosopher? It seemed to me that perhaps Rawls -- although an objection might be that his personality was set against any kind of display drawing attention to himself. What do you think?
I think one should make a statue of Rawls if and only if it would improve the lot of the least-well-off person in the world.
ReplyDeleteHah! And yet it's easy to imagine possible worlds in which that least-well-off person is the 'starving artist' commissioned to make the statue!
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